Posts under ‘Mexico’

When I first learned of Christopher McDougall’s best selling book about long-distance running I dismissed it as another tale about Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians.
It was from McDougall’s story in Runner’s World magazine over a decade ago that I first became intrigued with these mysterious people who can run 100 miles or more on some of [...]

The U.S. State Department’s updated Security Travel Alert for Mexico cautions U.S. citizens against visiting parts of the northern states of Durango and Coahuila. It also cites recent violence on the highways between Monterrey and the U.S. and updates certain crime statistics.
While the new version of the travel alert focuses on specific areas of Mexico, [...]

Looking for a way to make the winter pass by quickly? Sign up for a spring marathon.
A couple of weeks ago I registered for the Pittsburgh Marathon, which is May 2. (Less than two-and-a-half months away).
After running several marathons over the past few years, I didn’t run any in 2009.
Cold, Snowy and Dark. But with [...]

The handsome baby boomer-aged couple smokes a joint behind the bushes outside a graduation party. When they return in their altered state to the gathering awkward moments and hilarity ensues. 
This was a scene in the movie It’s Complicated, starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin. It seems harmless enough. The pot, we are told, [...]

In this Intrepid Traveler Dispatch, Jim and Tim go to Puerto Vallarta to pick up a vase and find great food, whales, and racoons!
THE TRIP: Puerto Vallarta
WHO: Jim and Tim
WHY: Jim’s 50th Birthday and to pick up a vase that I had won in a charity raffle
WHEN: January 14 – 24, 2010
GETTING THERE [...]

In this Intrepid Traveler Dispatch, photographer Skip Hunt tells us about his motorcycle ride through Mexico.
At times, he says, parts of the country feel like a portal to another dimension—even without the benefit of mind-altering substances found to grow there (more on that later).

At the end of each entry is a link to a [...]

Suzy DiSanto–a 45-year-old wife and mother in Durango, Colorado was feeling bored and uninspired.
But attending a Salsa dance retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico put the spice back into her life.

THE TRIP: Salsa Retreat, an 8-day dance vacation and Salsa workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico.
WHO: Suzy DiSanto –45 years old, married for 20 years, and mother of [...]

Sean Bagshaw, a professional photographer from Oregon, tells and shows us in vivid detail his month-long trip in Guanajuato, Mexico, which he is still enjoying with his wife and two sons.
While Dad is out taking breathtaking pics of the old colonial mining town, Mom and the kids are brushing up on their Spanish at [...]

By any measure the earthquake in Haiti is a disaster of epic proportions. But by some accounts it might present an opportunity to transform the impoverished country into a self-sustaining nation.
“It’s terrible to look at it this way, but out of crisis often comes real change,” C. Ross Anthony, the Rand Corp.’s global health director [...]

The passing of 2009 marks the end of what Queen Elizabeth II would describe as Annus Horribilis for Mexico.
Queen Elizabeth coined the term in 1992 to describe a year in which much of the royal family plagued by scandalous marital woes and the Windsor Castle caught fire.
By comparison, the problems Mexico endured last year make [...]